Martin Carter

Martin Carter was born in 1927 and received his secondary school education at Queen's College. During his early twenties he joined the turbulent political movement for national independence, quickly becoming a leading spokesman for the more radical forces of the movement. This prominence inevitably led to his arrest and imprisonment by the British colonial administration in 1953. At the time of ... more »

This is the dark time, my love

This is the dark time, my love, All round the land brown beetles crawl aboutThe shining sun is hidden in the skyRed flowers bend their heads in awful sorrowThis is the dark time, my love, It is the season of oppression, dark metal, and tears.It is the festival of guns, the carnival of miseryEverywhere the faces of men are strained and anxiousWho comes walking in the dark night time? Whose boot of steel tramps down the slender grassIt is the man of death, my love, the stranger invaderWatching you sleep and aiming at your dream.